Partition Magic!

Once upon a time the recommended method for installing Linux onto a machine that already had Windows on it was to purchase a commercial product called Partition Magic which would allow you to safely resize your Windows partition to make space for a new / additional Linux partition. These days there are things ‘built into’ the likes of Ubuntu to assist with this, but there are still times when you want to take a closer look at your disk, not least when your disk fails and you need to see what’s still there.

Parted Magic

Enter a bootable Live CD Linux distribution which only has one thing in mind – your hard disk.